From the Department of The Story Of My Life: Via Boing Boing, the opening bit of Julian Gough’s literary-bailout satire piece in the NYT (also here):
As we all know, lax writing practices earlier this decade led to irresponsible writing and irresponsible reading. This simply put too many families into books they could not finish. We are seeing the impact on readers and neighborhoods, with five million Americans now behind on their reading. Some are just walking away from novels they should never have been reading in the first place.
